Clip.



. .PATENTED MAR. 13, 1906.

P. E, LADD.

, CLIP.

. APPLICATION FILED DEG. 27,1902.

,. UNITED STATES PATENT o EIoE. I

FRANK 'E. IlADD, 0E SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

' f CLIP.

, Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented. March 13, 1906.

Application filed December 27, 1902. Serial No. 136,861.

associated pairs about a common center, all

in the manner hereinafter set forth and claimed. 7 x The object of my improvement is to produce a neat, compact, and efficient clip for holding in such position as to display to advantage one or more tickets or other articles of a more or less similar character which are adapted to be thus held. Amon other uses for which my clip is particular y adapted may be mentioned theretention of tickets and checks in railway-cars. Here a neat and com act clip is required and one which will firm y grasp and hold a ticket against the tendency to displacement incident to'the motion of the car, yet not so firmly as to cause the ticket to be torn when withdrawn. Furthermore, the construction of the clip must be such as to enable one to easily and quickly thrust a ticket (or its equivalent) into its grasp. Such a device I have produced. I attain these objects by the means illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figures 1 and 2 are plan views of blanks out of which two different styles of clip are made Figs. 3 and 4, front views of clips made from the blanks in the preceding figures, each of said clips having a ticket held thereby; Fig. 5, a top edge view of the clip and ticket shown in Fig. 3, and Fig. 6 a bottom edge view of the clip and ticket shown in Fig. 4. In all of the views except the first two the screw which secures the clip to the wall or other abutment is shown.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

In the construction of this clip I use a blank of more or less resilient metal having two body portions adapted to be bent together and each of which portions is provided with two laterally-extending or radial arms, two of the arms onone of the body portions being longer than those upon the other. Central 0 enings are so formed in the aforesaid blanlis as to coincide with each other When the body portions are bent together.

The arms also are so positioned as to coincide when the body portions arebent together. Before the blanks are bent the longer arms are pressed into suitable shape, as hereinafter described.

Referring to the views at the left of the sheet of drawings, A is' a blank having disklike portions or plates a a which are adapted to be bent together at the line b, where they join, the plate a bearing directly upon theplate a. Armsp c extend laterally from the plate a, and arms d d, which are longer than the arms 0, extend laterally from the plate a The plates a and a are each provided with a hole 6 for the reception of a screw f, by means of which the finished clip is secured in place. Each arm d is preferably curved outward immediately after leaving the plate a, then inward, and finally outward again to form a lip g; When the blank A is bent together on the line-b, the arms 0 and d coincide with each other, and the inwardly-bent portions of the arms (1 preferably come into contact with the arms 0. Back of-each lip g the end of the adj acent arm 0 may be beveled, as shown at h. The clip is firmly secured in position, with the back plate a and arms 0 against a wall or abutment and the front plate a and arms (1 against the other plate and arms by means of the screw f. The arms (1 are made longer than the arms a originally, so as to compensate for the undulations in the latter; otherwise said arms cl would be-shorter than said arms 0 in the finished device.

From the foregoing it will be seen that the edge of a ticket 0) can be readily thrust between either of the lips g and the beveled part it of the corresponding arm 0, or one corner of said ticket can be introduced'between coinciding' arms at a point where the front arm swells outward and forced between the part f of the arm 01 and the back arm, the resilient nature of said arm (1 permitting this to. be done and also serving to hold the ticketin place until Withdrawn. By rounding the outer ends of the arms provision is made for a, and the arms d extend downward at corresponding angles from the plate a, so that when the parts are bent together the arms such body portions being joined together at have an oblique instead of a horizontal direcone side of said arms, and the arms of one tion. The clip shown in Figs. 4 and 6 is the bodyportion normally contacting with those same in all respects as the one previously deof the other body portion, substantially as scribed with the exception of the direction of shown. 1 5 the arms, as above mentioned. In testimony whereof I have signed my What I claim as my invention, and desire name to this specification in the presence of to secure by Letters Patent, is two subscribing witnesses.

A clip comprising two contacting body por- FRANK E. LADD. tions having arms extending therefrom and Witnesses: arranged in angular relation to each other, F. A. CUTTER,

ALLEN WEBSTER. 

